My Porfolio: An Application for an Internship at 538
Kyle J. Ott
2 August 2016
Introduction
Below you will see examples of my work created using Stata, R, and Gephi.
Top Income Earners in Finland
I wrote a script in R that scraped data from Finland’s most influential business newspaper. Since 2009, they have published Finland’s top 15,000 income earners, inlcuding their name, gross earnings, and average tax rate. I then visually analyzed the data below and wrote an academic paper with a co-author found here.
Raw data of 5 years of logged income data from top Finnish earners plotted against the average tax rate paid in a given year.
Simple bin plot showing the observation counts for average tax rate paid across the years available for the data.
Plot income earnes by decile and year. Clear evidence that there was indeed a tax reform in 2011 for the top tax bracket.
Social Network Analysis Centered on New York Primary
Looking at the two populist campaigns of Sanders and Cruz, I downloaded millions of tweets during the days leading up to the New York Primary. I then conducted a network analysis using Gephi and also created simple word clouds of the top 50 hashtags for each campaign.
Top 50 Hashtags for Cruz campaign supporters.
Top 50 Hashtags for Sanders campaign supporters.